About the Authors

Armin A. Weiser

Contributed equally to this work with: Armin A. Weiser, Christian Thöns

armin.weiser@bfr.bund.de

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Christian Thöns

Contributed equally to this work with: Armin A. Weiser, Christian Thöns

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Matthias Filter

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Alexander Falenski

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Bernd Appel

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Annemarie Käsbohrer

Affiliation Department Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AAW CT AK. Wrote the paper: AAW CT MF AF BA AK. Designed the software: AAW CT MF AF BA AK. Wrote the software: AAW CT. Wrote the first draft: AAW. Interpreted results: AAW CT MF AF BA AK.